The fellowship of food. That's what we call this interconnected world of people who feed and tend their communities with their crops and traditions. This collection looks deep into the heart of the peach, and the people who grow it. It taps into a longing and a passion for authentic taste and for knowledge of the lives of people who devote themselves to these fresh, baked, canned, and preserved endeavors.
Edges of Bounty finds its characters in the outposts, on the margins, at the crossroads. Through the eyes of William and Scott, these people emerge as folk heroes, kitchen visionaries. These are individuals still tapped into land and place, rooted in their philosophies, their practices, their maniac desire to feed their families and the planet something healthy, gorgeous, and delicious. You read it in their words, you see it in their faces and the way they live and stand their ground. The land comes to life. The Central Valley of California is rendered again. Writer and photographer watching, asking, searching.
—from the foreword by NPR’s Kitchen Sisters